local user get created magically ! system hacked ?
by jehan procaccia
hello
I use about a hundred fedora19 stations in computer labs at our school
users accounts comes from an ldap directory and the homedir is
automounted via NFS.
However, recently I noticed that on some stations, local user account
had been created !
looking at the log file, I discovered in /var/log/secure something like
this:
/accounts-daemon: request by system-bus-name ::1.733
[/usr/libexec/gnome-initial-setup pid:15259 uid:991]: create user 'foobar'//
//useradd[29724]: new group: name=foobar, GID=1001//
//secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: new user:
name=susana, UID=1001, GID=1001, home=/home/susana, shell=/bin/bash//
//secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: add 'susana' to
group 'wheel'//
//secure-20131117:Nov 15 17:16:43 b3-4 useradd[29724]: add 'susana' to
shadow group 'wheel'/
Scary ! how comes gnome-initial-setup could create users, and morever
add them to the wheel group !
could it be a bug in /gnome-initial-setup , /a feature side effect ? or
our students found a "back door" ?
any suggestion greatly appreciated .
Thanks .
10 years, 4 months
Re: Fedora's audience
by DB
On 12/04/2013 11:14 PM, users-request(a)lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
> Subject:
> Fedora's audience
> From:
> Beartooth <beartooth(a)comcast.net>
> Date:
> Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02 +0000 (UTC)
>
Hi all,
Going on 72, worked with computors(!) before they became computers
(started 1963) using Fedora since FC6, both on desktop & laptop.
Always good to learn from (wish I still had Computer Literacy's Unix CLI
card...).
Many thanks to all involved!!
Dave
10 years, 4 months
simple-mtpfs fills root filesystem
by Alex
Hi,
I have an fc18 box that I use to mount my Samsung Galaxy S4 SPH-L720
to manage files.
It worked fine with my S3, but now with the S4, every time I connect
it, it creates a directory similar to /tmp/simple-mtpfs-r1ZApu with
the images from the Camera directory on my phone until the filesystem
fills up completely (50G root).
It looks like many files are duplicated, because I don't even have 10G
worth of pictures on the phone. The files look like
"010037f1903cd1a154f69bd11897ad5c656d854f" and contain actual JPEG
pictures.
After unmounting the filesystem, the contents of the directory is
eventually removed.
What is the cause of this?
Thanks,
Alex
10 years, 4 months
optimal(?) layout of fedora 19 with one SSD drive and one regular HD?
by Robert P. J. Day
i'm about to install f19 new on an ASUS G74S laptop with:
* primary 240G SSD drive
* secondary 750G regular HD
as well as 16G RAM, so i'm open to suggestions as to the best
way to do this for efficiency, protecting the SSD from constant
activity, and wanting to be able to do all this at installation
time if possible. finally, i'd like to have LVM in the mix
somewhere, even if only for the ability to experiment with it
and get some practice.
as i see i, first, if i want LVM, i want to restrict it to the
second drive. i don't see much value in LVM on the SSD, and i
certainly don't want to have a single volume group spanning both
drives as that just gives LVM the opportunity to create LVs mixing
SSD and non-SSD PVs, and i'm pretty sure i want to avoid that.
so, as a first impression, i'm tempted to partition the SSD
drive using standard partitions:
* small /dev/sda1 for /boot
* another small regular partition for swap?
* remainder for root partition, with the understanding that anything
under root that represents constant activity will be partitioned
off to the secondary drive.
so what goes on the second drive? i'd turn it into one PV, and
define a single VG based on that, then define a number of LVs,
the biggest one being /home, perhaps 500G. but what else deserves
to be an LV? i might create a /srv LV for serving content, but what
about things like /tmp, /var, /run, etc. some are of type tmpfs,
what should i do with those? if they run totally out of RAM, then
i don't care. in short, / and /boot aside, what other top-level
directories merit their own LV on the second drive?
and, finally, can i do all of this at install time? i suspect so,
just want to make sure.
rday
10 years, 4 months
Fedora OpenID not working
by Suvayu Ali
Hi,
I'm trying to login to Fedora copr, but I keep getting "502 Bad Gateway.
The server returned an invalid or incomplete response." from
id.fedoraproject.org. I can login to FAS though. Can anyone confirm?
Where do I report problems like these?
Thanks,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
10 years, 4 months
Default browser
by Beartooth
In the past, I have always set my default browser to Dillo, which
is very fast and very safe; and it usually shows me at least enough to
guess reasonably well whether I want to go on, switch to another browser,
or skip the site.
I've managed to make it a partial default (under xfce4 in F18).
Pan, for instance, routinely opens links in Dillo. Alpine, however, does
not. (I run Alpine on a remote host, over ssh; is that relevant? It does
open Firefox.)
Like so many other things of late, the software to set default
choices seems to have been moved to some new place, without leaving a
spoor behind to follow. So the place I found to set defaults is quite
likely not the main one. What is??
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
10 years, 4 months
yum repository-packages fedora install
by George R Goffe
Hi,
I'm just learning about yum and so, I just ran the above command. This caused yum to try to install ALL the packages in the fedora repository.
Yum proceeded to do Dependency Resolution which generated a ton of errors.
Would it be useful for me to post this list of error messages?
Thanks,
George...
10 years, 4 months
Re: evince
by Patrick Dupre
> >
> > In looking at the document's properties and selecting the "fonts" tab I noticed that it was using /usr/share/fonts/google-croscore/SymbolNeu.ttf for symbols on my F19 system. This comes with the google-croscore-symbolneu-fonts package. Erasing this package resulted in a "delta" being displayed as /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/s050000l.pfb is now being used.
In my case, I use for symbol:
/usr/sahre/fonts/wine-symbol-fonts/symbol.ttf
In my opinion, this is the faultry font.
I dug a bit,
In the symbol font, the Delta character is U+0394, while the increment character
is U+2206 (looks very simiar to a Delta), and it is just beside the empty set
character U+2205, the one which is probably displayed (like a Phi).
So, there is a mess up here.
> >
> >
>
> FWIW, the same issue exists in the current F20 Beta. I'll be filling a bugzilla on this.....
>
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10 years, 4 months
evince
by Patrick Dupre
Hello,
The viewing ot the attached file is correct with xpsd and acroread,
but is wrong with evince.
The correct character is a \Delta with the wrong character for me
is \Phi.
Would you know what is wrong?
Thank.
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Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | |
Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | |
Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44
189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France
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10 years, 4 months